c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'." — John McCarthy
"Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate." — Alexis Herman
"Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best." — Juliette Gordon Low
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." — Albert Ellis
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself." — Henry Adams
"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade." — Rudyard Kipling
"I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations." — Karlie Kloss
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him." — John F. Kennedy
"The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information." — Warren Christopher
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures." — Francis Bacon
"I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals." — David Attenborough
"I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me." — Michael Arad
"Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible." — Gustav Heinemann
"You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense." — Rick Warren
"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them." — Swami Vivekananda
"My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye." — Wilbur Smith
"But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths." — Donna Shalala
"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live." — Eric Burdon
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about." — Henry Ford
"It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family." — Alan Keyes
"You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth." — Mary J. Blige
"I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick." — Robert Powell
"Do what you fear and fear disappears." — David Joseph Schwartz
"We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework." — Li Peng
"I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks." — Totie Fields
"To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." — Marilyn vos Savant
"I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid." — Lady Gaga
"If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory." — Sun Tzu
"We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed." — Jean de la Bruyere
"I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true." — Alanis Morissette
"Never spend your money before you have earned it." — Thomas Jefferson
"When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward." — Andrea Thompson
"We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not." — Michael Bloomberg
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." — W. Somerset Maugham
"If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself." — Candace Bushnell
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists." — Don Marquis
"I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life." — Terry McAuliffe
"Everything I am is because of my mom." — Sarah Michelle Gellar
"The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger." — Drew Barrymore
"Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex." — Kurt Angle
"My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs." — Jim Evans
"I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing." — David Duchovny
"Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!" — Joe Biden
"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness." — Emanuel Swedenborg
"I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing." — Jerry Mathers
"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words." — Alfred North Whitehead
"Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast." — Graham Greene
"Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart." — Mel Brooks
"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit." — Felix Adler
"Cleaning is my favorite way to relax. I clear things out and get rid of the stuff I don't need. When the food pantry and the refrigerator are organized, I feel less stressed." — Jennifer Morrison
"In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them." — Barack Obama
"I find fear is a great motivator to work hard." — Greg Kinnear
"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere." — James Thurber
"My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel." — Sharon Tate
"Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world." — Blaise Pascal
"I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message." — Pharrell Williams
"That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me." — Kevyn Aucoin
"In the morning, I reach for the sports page." — Lisa Guerrero
"Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul." — Coretta Scott King
"I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress." — Ann Bancroft
"I don't get a chance to be home much." — Jennifer Hudson
"I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street." — Malcom X
"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play." — Philip Warren Anderson
"In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game." — Bobby Thomson
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time." — Jack Nicholson
"But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives." — Joan D. Vinge
"Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting." — Josh Lucas
"Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out." — Michael Scott
"For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money." — Louis C. K.
"I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice." — Dita Von Teese
"So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life." — Will Smith
"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own." — Maria Mitchell
"Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family." — Bo Bennett
"In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility." — Jonathan Krohn
"Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls." — Kid Rock
"I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive." — Giovanni Ribisi
"The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want." — Justin Timberlake
"Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages." — Selma Blair
"When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see." — Michael Jackson
"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me." — Michel de Montaigne
"Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher." — Alanis Morissette
"My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming." — Shania Twain
"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized." — Albert Einstein
"I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now." — will.i.am
"He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief." — Jose Marti
"When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home." — Rick Perry
"Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it." — David Schwimmer
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." — Vincent Van Gogh
"I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them." — Jerry Zucker
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative." — John Kenneth Galbraith
"We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things." — Jan Brewer
"They succeed, because they think they can." — Virgil
"Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall." — David Suzuki
"It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet." — Chris Evans
"I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life." — Harvey Fierstein
"In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product." — Bob Ney
"Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set." — Joel Edgerton
"'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms." — Dianne Feinstein
"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything." — Anita Brookner
"Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive." — Ron Fournier
"I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears." — Martin Short
"That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work." — Daniel Clowes
"Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to." — George Seaton
"We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves." — Daniel Boone
"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it." — Jean Rostand
"When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday." — Albert Brooks
"We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation." — Paul Ryan
"When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada." — Paul Cellucci
"I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read." — Jim Harrison
"I'm not interested in pop art." — Billy Corgan
"Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing." — Joe Jonas
"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future." — Lou Reed
"So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again." — Rosalind Wiseman
"We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money." — Jack Nicholson
"My longing for truth was a single prayer." — Edith Stein
"Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband." — Patricia Heaton
"My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff." — Jaron Lanier
"Men and women have strengths that complement each other." — Edwin Louis Cole
"It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations." — Jeb Bush
"We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile." — Barry White
"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible." — Robert M. Hutchins
"Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use." — Alexander Pope
"Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith." — Jon Meacham
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm." — Jerry Saltz
"Freedom is control in your own life." — Willie Nelson
"If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice." — Salma Hayek
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it." — Leo Tolstoy
"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me." — Gwyneth Paltrow
"My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen." — Jack Bowman
"If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach." — Bernie Sanders
"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power." — Milan Kundera
"My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial." — Corey Feldman
"A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion." — Ani DiFranco
"You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward." — Andre Agassi
"It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon." — Marat Safin
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything." — Oscar Wilde
"Where I once constantly lost my temper, I found myself arriving at a crisis and experiencing peace." — Josh McDowell
"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men." — Clare Boothe Luce
"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." — Thomas Jefferson
"You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from." — Werner Erhard
"I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert." — David Byrne
"The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves." — Ben Stein
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." — Bertrand Russell
"The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women." — Tyra Banks
"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society." — Henry St. John
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." — Golda Meir
"If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?" — Carl Sagan
"In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action." — Jeremy Renner
"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found." — Edward Thorndike
"In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy." — Mike Rogers
"Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate." — Richard P. Feynman
"You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now." — Chuck D.
"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility." — Thomas Szasz
"All love is lost but upon God alone." — William Dunbar
"I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever." — Al Gore
"I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it." — Keith Haring
"When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in." — Itzhak Perlman
"Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family." — Mink Stole
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families." — Dirk Kempthorne
"Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy." — Tertullian
"I happen to be really a romantic." — Amanda Seyfried
"Every noble work is at first impossible." — Thomas Carlyle
"Since 'Idol' I've gotten used to having an amazing hair and make-up team around me, so I'm starting to get picky. I know what I like now and I'm happy to say 'Could we maybe change that?' if I don't like something. I don't yell or anything, but I think I could definitely start to act a little diva-ish when it comes to my look." — Jordin Sparks
"It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse." — William Hazlitt
"Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve." — Jessica Chastain
"Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth." — David Duchovny
"Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country." — Peter Schuyler
"There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery." — Florence Welch
"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost." — Stephen Breyer
"The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual." — George Saunders
"Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more." — Bonnie Raitt
"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." — Samuel Butler
"The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York." — Ron Chernow
"Trying to force creativity is never good." — Sarah McLachlan
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time." — John Berger
"It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well she's so professional and hardworking." — Kaya Scodelario
"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures." — Mira Nair
"Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be." — Jon Bon Jovi
"The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours." — Suzi Quatro
"So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips." — Peter Singer
"We have time, there's no big rush." — Jimi Hendrix
"'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy." — Matt LeBlanc
"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter." — Elizabeth Gilbert
"Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math." — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable." — Anton Chekhov
"Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge." — Jo Nesbo
"Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams." — Benjamin Carson
"I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy." — Cher
"You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents." — Ellie Goulding
"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king." — Abraham Maslow
"No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope." — Josh Radnor
"You can't censor people's dreams." — Robyn Hitchcock
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone." — Francis of Assisi
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom." — Marilyn Ferguson
"By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water." — Aeschylus
"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being." — Martha Graham
"My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward." — Parker Posey
"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality." — Erich Fromm
"Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft." — Eugen Herrigel
"All war is based on deception." — Sun Tzu
"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection." — Luther Burbank
"One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic." — Joseph Stalin
"For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough." — Liam Neeson
"On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination." — Emile Hirsch
"I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me." — Ashley Greene
"And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together." — Elizabeth Warren
"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." — Aesop
"When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us." — Louis C. K.
"Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength." — Abdul Kalam
"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale." — David Rockefeller
"I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people." — Chief Joseph
"I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia." — Cher
"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them." — David Ricardo
"There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast." — Brian Koslow
"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands." — Ivan Pavlov
"I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world." — David Brainerd
"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants." — Michael Dell
"There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic." — Susan Orlean
"Marriage is the death of hope." — Woody Allen
"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." — Marilyn Monroe
"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent." — Abraham Lincoln
"In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family." — Monica Bellucci
"If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology." — James Dyson
"I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books." — Wilbur Smith
"I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years." — Tre Cool
"Politics is not about power." — Paul Wellstone
"The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it." — Yoko Ono
"I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible." — Mia Hamm
"We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness." — Bernard Loiseau
"Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it." — Wilhelm Reich
"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art." — Izaak Walton
"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors." — Quentin Crisp
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." — Frank Herbert
"Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy." — Roger Tory Peterson
"I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music." — Anthony Kiedis
"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail." — David Merrick
"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." — Vince Lombardi
"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you." — Ogden Nash
"I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that." — Aimee Mann
"We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way." — Al Jarreau
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through." — Alexis de Tocqueville
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." — Dalai Lama
"I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness." — Giorgio Armani
"To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams." — Rick Yune
"I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life." — Peter Singer
"It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power." — Thomas Frank
"I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character." — Nicole Kidman
"Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs." — Jeanine Basinger
"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination." — e. e. cummings
"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost." — Chauncey Depew
"I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life." — Gene Robinson
"I think Jersey stands alone, and because I'm from Jersey, I never make fun of where people are from. I'll make fun of what they look like, but I'll never make fun of where they are from. Jersey is special." — Jeff Ross
"People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me." — Helen Hayes
"I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea." — Lara Flynn Boyle
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner." — Omar N. Bradley
"I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video." — Catherine Deneuve
"Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion." — Margaret Sanger
"I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family." — Rick Perry
"It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse." — David Bailey
"Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting." — Eustace Budgell
"While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future." — John Podhoretz
"You know, what 'New Girl' is doing is they're bringing in really cool people. These are home-run people who aren't your typical guest-star-type people." — Jake Johnson
"Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think." — Roger Ebert
"I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war." — King George V
"For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music." — Taylor Swift
"I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it." — Hedy Lamarr
"Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust." — John Stossel
"Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." — Gouverneur Morris
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." — Wayne Dyer
"The right to happiness is fundamental." — Anna Pavlova
"Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village." — John George Nicolay
"I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five." — Steven Wright
"Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process." — Bonnie Blair
"We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades." — Lisa Bonet
"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"I will end up with someone in the arts. I am positive. I eat, breathe and sleep acting. And I'll end up with someone who is happy staying at home and having me cook supper. But I also really need to be intellectually challenged and stimulated. I want someone bookish, and someone who is passionate." — Ginnifer Goodwin
"Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible." — T. D. Jakes
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics." — Charles Bukowski
"I have always supported measures and principles and not men." — Davy Crockett
"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles." — John B. S. Haldane
"You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'" — Danny Boyle
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows." — Pope Paul VI
"Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health." — Nicholas D. Kristof
"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant." — Miguel de Unamuno
"My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar." — Susan Orlean
"I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008." — Michele Bachmann
"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy." — Antonio Tabucchi
"I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'" — Mika Brzezinski
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." — Milton Friedman
"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being." — Theodore Roosevelt
"There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market." — Jane Smiley
"I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins." — Shel Silverstein
"I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning." — Norah Jones
"I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning." — Cory Monteith
"The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend." — Hillary Clinton
"Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution." — John Thune
"I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters." — Bear Grylls
"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision." — Henry A. Kissinger